These data indicate that deficits in contralateral stepping are a reliable and sensitive measure of akinesia in unilateral 6-OHDA-lesioned rats, and they support the hypothesis that excess glutamatergic transmission at NMDA receptors may play a role in the expression of PD symptomology.
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